From m.cuddy.keane at utoronto.ca Fri Sep 5 10:07:41 2008 From: m.cuddy.keane at utoronto.ca (Melba Cuddy-Keane) Date: Fri Sep 5 10:07:43 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] last chance student travel grants References: <001d01c908ab$60aadcd0$6401a8c0@Melba3> Message-ID: <017101c90f60$c35bcc20$6401a8c0@Melba3> Please remember that the deadline for application is today, September 5, at= midnight Eastern Standard (Daylight Savings) Time. = Graduate Student Travel Grants Information is available on the conference web site. Please note that the = deadline has been extended to Sept. 5, to give those of you returning from = summer travel a little more time. I reply to all applications, but it may = take up to 2 days. If you have not heard from me in that time frame, write= again. It=92s a little easier for me if you include your information in = the body of your email rather than in an attachment. Our funds are limited,= and we cannot give support to all. 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Session organizers may wish to remind their colleagues of this. Also, we do hope that you will consider signing up for the Business Lunch on Saturday. The MSA Book Prize winner will be announced, and other MSA business discussed. The online registration form now includes a box to check for the lunch; if you signed up before that box was added, you'll need to send a check to the conference for $10 (a fee that partially pays for a very nice lunch, which has been underwritten by Johns Hopkins University Press). For more information, see www.vanderbilt.edu/msax, which includes the preliminary program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Wollaeger Professor of English Vanderbilt University mark.wollaeger@vanderbilt.edu Forthcoming in paperback: Modernism, Media, and Propaganda (2006; 2008) http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8295.html Co-editor, Modernist Literature & Culture, OUP series ______________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Her = publications include From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the = Politics of Protest (Oxford University Press, 1997) and, Race, = American Literature and Transnational Modernisms (Cambridge University = Press, 2008), as well as numerous articles. She is currently at work = on Modernist Japonisme in the Americas. Later in the fall, we welcome these colleagues as speakers: Paul K. Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania (Tues., 14 October) on = "Total War, Modernism, and Encyclopedic Form" and Kristina Wilson, Clark University (Tues., 9 December) In the Spring: Paul Armstrong (Brown University), Laura Frost (The = New School), and more (probably a session featuring graduate students=97 = we=92re working on it). We hope you'll be able to make the event, which includes discussion = after the talk. There is free parking at the Broadway Garage, on = Felton between Broadway and Cambridge Street. Just tell the attendant = that you're participating in an event at the HHC. Details about the Center, including a calendar of events, are = available at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/. Best wishes, Peter Nohrnberg, Harvard University, nohrnber@fas.harvard.edu John Paul Riquelme, Boston University, jpriquel@bu.edu, http://people.bu.ed= u/jpriquel/ Co-Chairs, Modernism Seminar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We are less interested in the obscure and mor= e concerned with the essence of the creative nexus of London from the end o= f the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century (up to a= round 1914). Contributors wishing to consider writers after 1914 are invit= ed to do so, but there must be a clear genealogy and analysis of the influe= nces on such writers, keeping in line with the spirit of origins of the vol= ume. We are less interested in essays completely focused on the =96isms of= the period but more focused on particular authors (individually or grouped= ) through their representative works. Irish dramatists who fit into the sc= ope of the volume will be considered. We are looking for previously unpubl= ished essays only, from established and beginning scholars world-wide. We are aware that this specific topic has been treated previously, most not= ably perhaps by J.L. Styan, Modern Drama in Theory and Practice (3 volumes,= 1983) and Christopher Innes, Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century (= 2002). There is continued interest in modernism, for example in the Moderni= st Studies Association in America and the Centre for Modernist Studies, Uni= v. of Sussex, UK; however, drama and theatre feature only marginally in the= work of these organizations. We invite prospective authors to revisit thes= e volumes and question the nature of early modernism in the context of dram= a and theatre with renewed vigor. In terms of this Updated Call, we are asking specifically for work on the t= heatre context (rather than dramatists themselves directly), since the thea= tre provides the framework for dramatists to fit in with or not. We are es= pecially interested in essays on Henry Arthur Jones or James M. Barrie. We are looking for abstracts or proposals immediately. We would request fi= nished essays in MLA style by 30 June 2009. We are looking for good, clear= writing on solid authors, extensive use of scholarly resources, and polish= ed essays around 20-25 pages in length. Proposals (with a very brief biography) or inquiries may be submitted eithe= r on paper format or (preferably) by e-mail (with a clear subject line; no = attachments please), as soon as possible to both Daniel Meyer-Dinkgr=E4fe Ph.D. Professor of Drama University of Lincoln Lincoln School of Performing Arts LPAC Building, Brayford Pool Lincoln LN6 7TS UK dmeyerdinkgrafe@lincoln.ac.uk and Gregory F. Tague, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English St. Francis College 180 Remsen Street =96 Room 6005 Brooklyn Heights, New York 11201 USA gtague@stfranciscollege.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://chaos.press.jhu.edu/pipermail/msa-members/attachments/20080913/= 54586354/attachment.htm From delgizzos at chc.edu Sun Sep 14 21:44:02 2008 From: delgizzos at chc.edu (del Gizzo, Suzanne) Date: Mon Sep 15 07:49:02 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] CFP: Hemingway Society Panels at the 2009 ALA in Boston MA Message-ID: The Hemingway Society invites proposals for two sessions at the 2009 American Literature Association meeting, May 21-24 in Boston, MA: 1) Teaching The Garden of Eden This panel seeks to explore issues and strategies related to teaching Hemingway's posthumously published novel, The Garden of Eden. Since it was first published in 1986, the available version of The Garden of Eden has occasioned controversy and significant re-evaluations of Hemingway's work, personal life, and persona. We hope to address questions such as: What are the challenges of teaching The Garden of Eden? What issues arise (ethical, philosophical, generic, etc.)? What pedagogical strategies are useful? What critical/theoretical approaches are useful? How do students respond to the novel? Write about it? What is the value of teaching Garden? The panel will consist of 4 or 5 presenters with short papers (approximately 10 minutes each). Please send 1-page proposals with academic rank and affiliation and av requests to Carl P. Eby at CarlPEby@gwm.sc.edu AND Suzanne del Gizzo at delgizzos@chc.edu by December 15, 2008. 2) Sentencing Ernest Hemingway/One True Sentence In A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway recalls assuring himself: "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know." With Hemingway's self-exhortation in mind, the Hemingway Society is convening a panel of several speakers at ALA in Boston to deliver 8-10-minute-papers, each devoted to a single Hemingway sentence. The sentence chosen from Hemingway's work should best capture the essence of who Hemingway was. It might be the truest, or the most moving, fertile, important, teachable, problematic, or purely Hemingwayesque sentence. Your choice might have particular biographical, historical, personal, or stylistic resonance. Ultimately, if you had to use one sentence to open a discussion or a lesson about Hemingway, which would it be? Any sentence - from Hemingway's novels, stories, poems, nonfiction, letters, journalism, or even interviews - is welcome. We are hoping that the contributions will lead to a broader round table discussion among participants and attendees alike. Please send your sentence and a 250-word proposal (including rank and affiliation) and av requests to Mark Cirino at mc171@evansville.edu AND Suzanne del Gizzo at delgizzos@chc.edu by December 15, 2008. Thank you! To see the program for the upcoming 2008 Modern Language Association meeting or to review any current Calls for Papers, please visit: http://www.hemingwaysociety.org/#alamla.asp. If you have any questions about these CFPs, please feel free to email me, Suzanne del Gizzo, at delgizzos@chc.edu. From m.cuddy.keane at utoronto.ca Tue Sep 16 09:03:18 2008 From: m.cuddy.keane at utoronto.ca (Melba Cuddy-Keane) Date: Tue Sep 16 09:03:31 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] shared accommodation at MSAX Message-ID: <004201c917fc$97005a70$6401a8c0@Melba3> Dear MSA X Conference-Goers, In response to some inquiries about the possibility of finding roommates fo= r this year's MSA, the Site Committee has begun a Google group where intere= sted parties may post and read roommate requests. If you would like to lear= n more about this new feature, or to join the group, please contact Amanda = Hagood at charlotte.a.hagood@vanderbilt.edu or msax@vanderbilt.edu . Note the special conference rates of $175 (plus tax) for a single or a doub= le (discounted from $250), $195 for a triple, and $215 for a quad, for conf= erence registrants who register by October 10, 2008. To receive the special= rate, registration for the MSA Conference is required (failure to register= will trigger the regular rate). Look for more information about the hotel,= bookings, Nashville, and travel to and from the airport on the conference = site. Many thanks to the Nashville organizers, and to Amanda in particular, for s= etting up this wonderful website up! Thanks also to Connor Byrne (Dalhousi= e University) for the question that prompted this exciting new development. Melba Cuddy-Keane MSA President, 2007-08 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://chaos.press.jhu.edu/pipermail/msa-members/attachments/20080916/= 24f041b7/attachment.htm From ldunick at illinois.edu Mon Sep 15 09:11:18 2008 From: ldunick at illinois.edu (LMS Dunick) Date: Thu Sep 25 11:42:50 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] CFP: Kay Boyle Society Panel at ALA Boston 2009 Message-ID: <20080915081118.BJU38129@expms2.cites.uiuc.edu> The Kay Boyle Society invites proposals for its panel at the 2009 American Literature Association meeting, May 21-24 in Boston, MA: Kay Boyle and Other Writers: Little Magazines, the Middlebrow, and Modernism Like many authors of her time, Kay Boyle began her career as a professional author in the small magazine culture of expatriate Paris in the 1920s. Boyle published her earliest work in the pages of This Quarter, The Dial, transition, as well as The Black Sun Press. Like many writers of her time, she did not remain a Little Magazine author. By 1931, she had moved on to the pages of The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harper?s Bazaar, and the Saturday Evening Post. Her transition into publishing in magazines with larger circulations both bothered Boyle and provided her with public recognition and a commensurate income. This panel will explore the impact of publishing venues on Boyle?s work and her relationship to other authors who made a similar transition. Of interest are papers that explore the effect of these different publishing venues on Boyle or explore Boyle?s connection to other authors in similar situations. Papers need not deal specifically with other authors, but papers that do so are welcome. Papers might address the following topics: ?Publication venues and their influence on Boyle?s work or her reception ?The relationship between large and small presses, and Boyle's involvement in both. ?Questions of gender and the transition into mainstream literary culture. ?The importance of publishing venue to understanding Boyle?s place in the modernism ?The relationship between Boyle and other modernist authors who contributed to Little Magazines. ?The relationship between publication venue and Boyle?s politics; and the effect of her politics on publication ?Boyle?s relationship to or with other authors ?Publication and reputation: opportunities and challenges ?Other facets of Boyle?s long career as an author or her reputation as a modernist Please send 300 word abstracts to Lisa Dunick (ldunick@illinois.edu) by January 5, 2009. From schweizerb at yahoo.com Mon Sep 15 22:54:05 2008 From: schweizerb at yahoo.com (Bernard Schweizer) Date: Thu Sep 25 11:42:50 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] Rebecca West Conference 2009 Message-ID: "REBECCA WEST IN LONDON" EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS The Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Rebecca West Society will take place from September 18-19, 2009, at the Institute of English Studies, University of London This first UK conference devoted to Rebecca West continues the debate established at three previous International West Society conferences, this time in the city where West was born, where she worked at its cultural centre, and which inspired Harriet Hume (1929). Proposals on any aspect of West?s work, biography, or public life are sought on any theme ? the following are only suggestions: London; Architecture; Fleet Street; Theatre Contemporaries (Woolf, Orwell, Lawrence) World War; Cold War; Sex War Criticism (Proust, James, Kafka, Dostoevsky) Africa; America; France; Germany; Mexico; Yugoslavia Music; Food; Pleasure; Film Heroes (Mozart, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Augustine) Suffrage; Feminism; Men and Women Family; God; History; Law Proposals are welcome from researchers in all disciplines (World Literature, Fine Art, Film, Philosophy, History, Theology, Politics, International Relations, etc.). Please send a 300-word abstract, with a note about yourself, to Dr. Joanna Labon, School of English, University of Kent, CT2 7NZ, UK, jll@kent.ac.uk, by 1st March 2009. Speakers will be confirmed later in the Spring. For further conference details, log on to http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2009/RebeccaWest/index.htm From dkeane at buffalo.edu Tue Sep 23 14:27:41 2008 From: dkeane at buffalo.edu (dkeane@buffalo.edu) Date: Thu Sep 25 11:42:51 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] CFP for North American James Joyce Conference, Buffalo, June 09 Message-ID: <2243.1222194461@buffalo.edu> Dear MSA Members: Please see below for the call for papers for the 2009 North American James Joyce Conference, in Buffalo, New York. Any questions can be directed to the e-mail addresses given below. We look forward to hearing from you. best, Damien Keane. ----- CALL FOR PAPERS The 2009 North American James Joyce Conference Endorsed by the International James Joyce Foundation University at Buffalo, State University of New York June 12-16, 2009 www.english.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce EIRE ON THE ERIE The 2009 North American James Joyce Conference will be hosted by the Department of English at the University at Buffalo-SUNY. The conference will feature plenary addresses by Luca Crispi (National Library of Ireland and University College, Dublin) and John Nash (Durham University); panels on the Joyce collection at Buffalo, genetic studies of Joyce's manuscripts and avant-textes, theoretical innovations in Joyce studies, the literary and cultural fields of modernism, and Joyce's Irish contexts; a major exhibit of items from the holdings of the James Joyce Collection at the University Libraries; a presentation on and demonstration of archive collection conservation; and Buffalo's 12th annual Bloomsday celebration. We welcome abstracts for individual papers and proposals for additional panels on any Joyce-related topic, and particularly encourage submissions that connect in some way to the James Joyce Collection at the University Libraries. Abstracts for individual papers should be limited to 150-200 words, while completed panel proposals should not exceed 500 words. All non-plenary papers or presentations are strictly limited to a maximum of 20 minutes. Participants are limited to presenting a paper on one panel only. Submissions must include name, institutional affiliation or independent scholar status, contact information, and a list of any audio/visual equipment needed for your presentation. ***** DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: FEBRUARY 15, 2009. ***** Please send electronic submissions (as attachments) to jj2009@buffalo.edu, or, if by mail, to the Department of English, 306 Clemens Hall, University at Buffalo-SUNY, Buffalo, New York, 14260-4610. For questions about housing, travel, and other arrangements, please check the conference homepage or write directly to dedalus449@netscape.net. From m.cuddy.keane at utoronto.ca Tue Sep 30 11:12:37 2008 From: m.cuddy.keane at utoronto.ca (Melba Cuddy-Keane) Date: Tue Sep 30 11:11:05 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] hotel rooms in Nashville Message-ID: <00b601c9230f$0b2efc40$6401a8c0@Melba3> Dear MSA Members, The initial block of hotel rooms issued at special conference rates at the = Loews Vanderbilt Hotel is now filled (premonitions of a successful conferen= ce!). The Conference organizers, however, are busily at work securing more= rooms at good prices either at this or nearby hotels. It's best then not = to sign up for rooms at the regular rates, but to wait for a further announ= cement, letting you know about other possibilities. We expect to have more= information for you soon. warm regards, Melba Cuddy-Keane MSA President, 2007-08 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The rate includes a = *hot* breakfast (e.g., made to order omelettes), free shuttle service betwe= en hotels (though not a far walk to the Loews) or downtown to the honky ton= ks, and, believe it or not, complimentary cocktail service each day from 5:= 30-7:30 pm, which includes appetizers and free drinks. = Online reservations: you can use the hotel website to make reservations; us= e the code VMS for the group rate: www.nashvilleatvanderbilt.embsuites.com = 2. Hampton Inn & Suites Vanderbilt Elliston Place = 2330 Elliston Place Nashville, Tennessee 37203 Phone: (615) 320-6060 Fax: (615) 327-4723 Toll Free: (888) 880-5395 (ask for the MSA rate) Conference rate: $129 (plus tax) = This hotel is easy walking distance to the conference hotel. = Online reservations: you can use the hotel website to make reservations; us= e the code MSA for the group rate: http://www.hamptoninnnashville.com/home_= vanderbilt.php [use the Group/Convention code box] = 3. Hampton Inn Vanderbilt West End 1919 West End Avenue . Nashville, Tennessee 37203 Phone: (615) 329-1144 . Fax (615) 320-7112 Toll Free: (888) 880-5394 (ask for MSA rate) Conference rate: $119 (plus tax) = This hotel is also easy walking distance to the conference hotel. It is not= quite as new and therefore slightly cheaper. = Online reservations: you can use the hotel website to make reservations; us= e the code MS1 [note different codes for the two Hampton locations] for the= group rate: http://www.hamptoninnnashville.com/home_nashville.php [use th= e Group/Convention code box] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://chaos.press.jhu.edu/pipermail/msa-members/attachments/20080930/= 9d14ed35/attachment.htm From brassard at up.edu Tue Sep 30 13:33:04 2008 From: brassard at up.edu (Brassard, Genevieve) Date: Thu Oct 2 07:46:15 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] CFP: Sound and Silence in the Space Between, 1914-1945. Message-ID: <5DF1314C476B904193CC06A9725FDCD10189155B@london.campus.up.edu> Submissions requested for the 11th annual conference of = The Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. = University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana June 11-13, 2009 = = >From the growl of automobile and airplane engines and the whir of electric= appliances to fascism's oppressive silences, the years between 1914 and 19= 45 witnessed a variety of new sounds and silences. This interdisciplinary c= onference invites historians and critics of literature, art, music, film, d= ance, and popular culture to explore the myriad sounds and silences of the = interwar period. = Possible topics include: =B7 The impact of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and sound film = on modern subjectivity and expression =B7 The new sounds of technology and war =B7 The enforced silencing of political and cultural critique =B7 The sounds of political and social protest =B7 Silence as spirituality, as resistance, as consent =B7 The sounds of previously marginalized or disenfranchised voices =B7 The incorporation of sound and noise into literature and art =B7 The rising awareness of sound in shaping everyday experience =B7 The breakdown of classical tonality and the rise of new tonal s= tructures = Please send 300-word abstract and one-page CV to Erika Doss (doss.2@nd.edu = ). 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